It looks like the fringe right-wing press conference to challenge hate crimes legislation keeps picking up more support, as Rick Scarborough went on Janet Porter's radio program yesterday to discuss it and Porter pledged to join them in standing outside of the Department of Justice as they seek to get arrested for preaching the Bible.

According to the program, Porter, Scarborough and the others will also be joined by Matt Barber and Gordon Klingenschmitt (as well as Brian Camenker of Mass Resistance.)

And it's no surprise that MassResistance, which is a recognized Hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, will be there spreading their homo-hating bile.

The goal, according to Scarborough and crew, is to get arrested so they can take the new hate crimes expansion to the Supreme Court. It's funny... I don't recall any of these groups doing this kind of protest against Hate Crimes laws when they just covered religious based crimes.

There's that pesky reality and logic coming in again...

I have no doubt that the group will get some media coverage. With a line-up like this, they are sure to get some attention (right, Fox News?). They'll have a nice little platform to spew toxic language that, by their own admission, may incite hate crimes against LGBT people.

Like I've said before, I hope America takes a good, hard listen to what comes out of these people's mouths. This kind of radical, disgusting rhetoric only pushes reasonable people further away from them and helps move our cause forward.

But at what cost?

"What Would Jesus Do", indeed...

Update

On October 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a measure extending the federal hate crimes statute to include so-called sexual orientation. The ministers believe this will criminalize all criticism of homosexual behavior, including that contained in the Bible.

To test this belief and protest a clear violation of First Amendment freedom of speech and religion, various clergy will preach short sermons and read passages from the Bible regarding homosexual behavior. Like Dr. Martin Luther King and the Sixties Civil Rights movement, they will engage in civil disobedience to protest injustice.

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Right Wing Watch just posted this press release update from Rick Scarborough saying Anti-Gay Activists Are Just Like MLK:

"On October 28, President Barack Obama signed into law a measure extending the federal hate crimes statute to include so-called sexual orientation. The ministers believe this will criminalize all criticism of homosexual behavior, including that contained in the Bible.

To test this belief and protest a clear violation of First Amendment freedom of speech and religion, various clergy will preach short sermons and read passages from the Bible regarding homosexual behavior. Like Dr. Martin Luther King and the Sixties Civil Rights movement, they will engage in civil disobedience to protest injustice."

Since the Bible condones slavery, will these protesters also be advocating the return of slavery? So much for their emulation of MLK ...

The sad, difficult fact is that the Bible does include stuff that our society has already soundly rejected --- wonder how many of these protesters have been divorced and re-married, or dip their beef liver in milk before frying --- yet this idiots obsess about Leviticus.

This is the more serious side of "God Hates Shrimp" ... but I do hope that Stephen Colbert does a piece on it, because it is ripe for comedic harvesting ...